WouldYou Go With Me–JoshTurner

"Seriously you think that is a good plan. I can spot three ways you could get killed before you are a third of the way through the plan." Jasper stated.

"Fine you come up with a better one." Peter challenged.

"You two are both idiots." Bella said. "You need to set up a sting operation."

"How do you suppose we do that?" Jasper asked.

"Do any of the ranch hands that you trust want to go into law enforcement at all?" Bella asked.

"There is one, Paul, He doesn't talk about it much but he might be willing to help." Peter said before Jasper could answer.

"Okay Bella we have the potential law enforcement what is the plan?" Jasper asked.

"First off you need to have a big fight in public with you saying if he screws up again that he's fired and for the time being has docked pay." Bella said. "Then you could have him go to the hang outs of those idiot brothers trying to hurt you guys and talk loudly about how he wants to get back at you."

"Not a bad start but how would that help?" Peter said.

"Well you have to let me finished." Bella said. "If the Volturi brothers take his bait have him set up a 'meeting' at the old abandon cabin on the east side of the property not far from the fire roads. You could wire it with cameras and listening devices that you can hand over to the police and you might want to get the other farmers and ranchers to see if they want to help."

"I'll do that before Charlotte and I go home tonight." Peter said.

"Why not now?" Bella asked. "Better to do it early before most are in bed."

"Good point." Peter said moving out of the office to make his calls.

"I'll set up the cameras. We have some left over that I was going to send back because we had all we needed."

"You better not do that tonight." Bella said. "I don't like you being out after dark."

"Bella the cabin has no light source in it so I wouldn't be able to do it anyway." Jasper told her. "Besides I don't want you out of my sight until this is all over with."

"You need to stop reading that file."

"Bella they have had over a dozen people killed. I have a perfectly good reason to be worried."

"She is right Jasper." Peter said.

"How'd it go?" Jasper asked.

"Good we only have five willing to help but they are all ex-military." Peter said. "We have three sharp shooters, an ex army major and a navy petty officer who was taught to shoot by one of the sharp shooters."

"Why do I feel like we are part of that TV show LEVERAGE?"

"Because in a way we are and you are tired because you didn't get much sleep last night." Jasper said.

"I can't help it. I haven't been able to get much sleep at all the past few weeks." Bella said.

"If it continues you're going to the doctor for two reasons I can't have a sick ranch hand and I care about you too much to just sit and watch you get sicker."

"Jasper I am just tired I am not sick."

"Well you should go to bed. Peter and I still have to bring the horses back in to the barn." Jasper said.

"I could he—" Bella said.

"NO. Now go to bed." Jasper said. "Please."

"Fine." Bella said.

"I'll come in and see you if you are not a sleep when get in." Jasper said kissing her on the fore head.

"You know I will be awake. With everything going on there is no way I could sleep knowing that you could be in danger."

"Bella, I will be fine. Peter and I both have a rifle, shotgun and revolver on us in case we need to protect ourselves."

"What if you can't get to them?" Bella asked.

"The revolvers are on us at all times." Jasper said pulling his jacket open to reveal the gun in its holster. "Peter's is located on his left side because he is left handed."

"I'm going to leave now. I better not hear any gun shots going off." Bella said.

"You won't." Jasper said getting up from his chair to follow her.

Peter had followed Jasper. When they go to the barn doors they stopped and Bella had continued on toward the house. There was a full moon so she had no need for a flash light to get to the house but Jasper still watched to make sure that she made it okay.

"You are in love with her." Peter said. It wasn't a question but a statement.

"Of course, how could I be anything else?" Jasper replied.

"You would be an idiot if you weren't. Now let's go and bring those horses in."

"We need to clean their feet too." Jasper said. "They have been out all day and probably have built up a lot of gunk in their shoes."

"I know they will need to be replaced in the next couple of weeks too."

"I'll have Emmet take a look when he and Rose get back to town." Jasper said. "He's the only one that would have any idea if the shoes are causing them pain and we don't want that."

Jasper and Peter spent their time bringing the horses in and cleaning their feet quiet. They didn't talk during task like this at least not when they had bigger things on their minds. Peter had charlotte and his twins on his mind and Jasper had Bella and the ranch on his mind with Bella being número uno in his mind.

"That's the last of 'em." Peter said locking the last horse into a stall.

"Please make sure the stalls are locked up nice and tight." Jasper said. "And I'll lock up the office."

Peter did as Jasper asked and started walking down the hall of stalls and shook each of the doors making sure they were tight. The last few at the end of the barn were a little lose but it would still take a while for someone to break into it. He had finished the last one when he spotted something that didn't belong in a barn and looked familiar. He picked it up and went to find Jasper.

"Hey pe—"

"Look." Peter said. "It's like the one Bella found."

'crush it' Jasper mouthed.

Peter didn't listen to Jasper. He took the 'bug' and dunked it into a bucket of water hanging in the nearest stall for the horse.

"Why did you do that?" Jasper asked.

"It's an electronic so water would be its enemy and also we need it whole so we can look up the serial number." Peter replied. "Crushing it would have likely crushed it so bad that we wouldn't have been able to read the serial number."

"Do it in the morning Charlotte is likely to kill you if you don't get going soon." Jasper said.

"Like Bella wouldn't be the same with you." Peter replied.

The brothers continued to jostle each other like that until they reached the porch. Charlotte and the twins were waiting for Peter who took Allen out of her arms allowing Charlotte to pick Ellen up off the porch.

"I'll be up tomorrow to help you out." Peter said turning to Jasper.

"You know where we are working tomorrow don't you?"

"East side behind where the creak runs." Peter said.

"Bingo."

Jasper waved good bye and walked inside.

"Charlotte and Peter get away just fine?" Carolynn asked.

"Yes. They did just fine and I thought you would be in bed by now."

"I wanted to see the guest David Letterman had on his show."

"The author of that book series you like right?"

"Yes but I do believe I should get to bed now. You should to."

"I know ma I was headed that way when I spotted you in here." Jasper said heading up the stairs.

His mother followed him a few minutes later but Jasper hadn't seen her because he was already in his room. He had heard the floor creak when she passed by his room. After he knew she was in her room and locked in for the night Jasper walked from his room to Bella's she was already sleep so he couldn't say anything to her.

He knew she must have been a sleep talker because he heard her say his name a few times. He smiled and left the room. He decide to look up the listening device peter had found in the barn. He could already tell it wasn't one he and Peter had installed before their uncle died because it didn't have the red w painted on it. He took the bug out of his shirt pocket and placed it on his desk. He then dug through the draws of the desk looking for the magnifying glass that he's had since high school. He found it at the bottom of the last drawer.

He ran the magnifying glass over the bug and couldn't find anything. He decided to use the knife he always kept with him to pry the casing open. He found the number on the inside of one of the plastic pieces. He quickly wrote down the number before putting the pieces of the listening device in compartment of his desk so he wouldn't lose them.

He then pulled his laptop closer and logged on. He waited for it to fully come on. He clicked on the only internet icon he had and went looking for the type of listening device it was. He looked at the pieces again and found that the name was on the outside of the pieces.

He typed that into the search engine and clicked on the link to the company's website. Jasper wanted to do a happy dance when he saw that they had a way to see what state, town and store the device was bought in all he had to do was enter the number. He took his time entering the number so he would get the right one.

He wanted to cheer again when he saw that the one Peter had found was bought at a gadget shop in town. He could go there with Peter tomorrow before they checked out the cabin.

He took the note pad with the listening device's serial number on it and the store where it was bought and the device it's self and locked it up in his safe along with the file that Bella had given him so it couldn't be taken from him and he wasn't likely to give their locations up if even if he was tortured to death.

After locking everything away Jasper went to take a quick shower before he changed into his clean pajamas. He heard the floor boards near his room creak from the strain of someone walking on them. It could have been Parker coming back late. So Jasper put his ear to the door and listened. The steps seemed to light to be a man's even one the size of Parker. He opened his door to see Bella walking back into her room.

"Bella are you all right?" Jasper asked.

"I'm fine I just can't seem to get to sleep." Bella told him.

"Are you sure you don't need to see a doctor about this."

"Jasper I… I haven't slept the same since the night we were together." Bella said her blood rushing to her cheeks. "You left the next morning and I… my sleeping pattern haven't been the same since then."

There was a pause.

"You aren't going to laugh at me?" Bella asked.

"I couldn't laugh at you." Jasper said. "Because I… I would be in that same boat."

Jasper leaned down and kissed her.